Monday, October 27, 2014

The world's breadbasket is in a long drought

"Frankly, there’s not much hope. How do we accommodate this new reality?
Farming is never going to go back, regardless of how much rain we get
next year, to the way it was in the ’70s and ’80s. It’s a long-term era
of scarcity.
California is much bigger than it was when these reservoirs were built,
40 or 50 years ago. There’s more water going to cities and the
environment now. That boom era of California farming, I think everyone
recognizes, is just a thing of the past."